Snowstorm Janus has been making a mess on the East Coast of the U.S. this last week. But the snowplows were out and about in New York City streets, and that's when things went terribly wrong for a familiar tech company.

A worker clearing snow Tuesday night apparently bumped their snow blower into one of the cube windows, which promptly shattered. The 32-foot window will be an expensive repair job -- the total system cost $7.6M USD to build; replacing the cracked panel in the southeast corner of the cube is expected to cost $450,000 USD.

Hopefully they bought the screen protection plan.

The Apple Store during happier times [Image Source: Cult of Mac]

Incidentally, this is the first minor disaster to strike the popular Apple hub, which is open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. The store was also flooded back in May due to construction issues.

Apple did set the standard of quality in their smartphones and other products, all the others just tried to follow.

Never owned an Apple product, but it's really very funny, silly and stupid how do some people hate Apple and Apple product owners.I really don't get it, you don't like the iPad it's ok, stick to your rubbish cheap Android tablet and no body would care.

For Jason Mick, I just read your article about Micron and DDR4 two days ago, I really did enjoy the reading and would thank you very much for your time.But for this article, what the hell you were smoking :)

LMAO, Apple setting the standard for quality.You want standard-setting quality, go to Scandinavia. Nokia made indestructible cell-phones, Volvo built a car that still hasn't stopped after 3 million miles, Thor is a big part of our language (Thursday is named for him; Mill and meal are derived from Mjolnir) because he was busting ass for humanity, and the Swedish bikini team.

Apple has set the standard for abusing customers with outrageous prices and shit support. When a cat pees on a computer, they refuse to even touch it, because of some hippie biohazard crap. Any other company would have fixed or replaced it.